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"We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
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"No one can do the learning for you."
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"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."
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"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."
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"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
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"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."
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"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."
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"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
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"No one knows a man better than himself."
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"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."
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"Beauty is first and foremost an emotion."
Beauty
"It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it."
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"I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context."
Thought
"In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time."
Time
"My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave."
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"I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet."
Language
"Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is."
Nation
"My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own."
Literature
"I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers."
Work
"Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price."
Courage
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